Adam and Eve’s choice to rebel against their Creator’s authority and to experience evil firsthand dramatically altered the pleasures and fulfillment of Eden. From then on, God informed them, they would experience more pain and more work. To Adam God said: Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until